CREATIVE Team
Megan Dulcie Dill
Megan Dulcie Dill is an artist and facilitator interested in exploring the environment through innovative and multi sensory art projects. She has worked as an arts and literacy facilitator and painter for the past 20 years after receiving a BFA from the Nova Scotia University of Art and an MAA from Emily Carr University. Megan now resides in the qathet region of British Columbia, Canada. As an arts educator Megan Dulcie is interested in rethinking conventional ways of learning and engaging curiosity as a catalyst for change. She is currently completing a body of work combining mixed media installation and mediated walks.
Claudia medina
Claudia Medina is a filmmaker and educator living in the qathet region, Canada. She has been making films and mentoring students for twenty years. She holds a BA in sociology and Latin American studies from SFU and a masters of visual culture from the University of Barcelona. In 2001 she established En Media Productions as the container for her diverse projects and work in film, video, performance, visuals, and visual storytelling workshops. All of En Media’s projects explore possibilities of reconnection – to nature, to community, to a sense of personal and collective agency as we navigate through times of crisis and renewal. enmedia.ca
sosan blaney
From the Tla’amin Nation and born and raised in the Tla’amin traditional territory, Sosan Blaney has worked in many different areas of language and cultural preservation and revitalization. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vancouver Island University with a major in First Nations studies and has a Master’s certificate from the University of Victoria in Indigenous Language Revitalization. She also weaves traditional Salish materials such as cedar root, cedar bark, wool and other plant fibres into hats, baskets, jewelry and regalia and participates in the drumming, singing and canoeing groups within the Tla’amin community.
Haley Hunt-brondwin
Haley Hunt-Brondwin is a visual artist and designer from the west coast of BC, currently splitting her time between “Vancouver” and qathet. Haley has an interdisciplinary practice primarily focused in painting, tapestry and new media. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Visual Art from Emily Carr University.
Her visual art work explores the qualities of human relationships and our phenomenological and physiological relationship to landscape, both internal and external. Haley is interested in what is revealed amongst and within points of connection and disconnection – always in pursuit of the balance between tension and harmony.
In her new media work Haley's focus is human centered design as a means to express, communicate and honour.
Brigit Sirota-Goldammer
Brigit is a graphic designer who’s 30 year career began at the Georgia Straight in Vancouver BC. She then moved to Pemberton and as senior designer at Origin Design in Whistler, she was also guided trips in Belize, the BC Coast & Northwest Territories on her time off. She went out on her own as Niche Market Design in 2011, and moved to qathet in 2015 to be near the ocean. She is grateful to be a part of the creative community and be able to immerse herself in the ocean, forests and lakes when away from her desk. Her main clientele are localized outdoor, cultural and indigenous tourism businesses and communities. nichemarketdesign.ca
Laurance Playford-beaudet
Contemplation as an act of subversion; Laurance focuses on that which is overlooked or unnoticed, looking at the spaces-in-between-things. Simple acts of listening turn into dialogue/discussion with the material at hand. Research assistant, treeplanter, collaborator, listener, sound artist: Laurance moved to Texada Island from Vancouver, where they graduated from Emily Carr University in New Media and Sound Arts. Currently collaborating on bringing diverse arts programming to the qathet region. playford-beaudet.com
MAYA VOON
Maya Voon was born in Powell River, BC, and raised on Savary Island. She is a high school student studying online and has been playing music since the age of six. Maya has busked at the Powell River Farmers' Market for several years now with both violin and guitar. She has been writing for many years and is also interested in philosophy, art, and songwriting.